Supreme Court White Paper on Artificial Intelligence and Judiciary

Source: Supreme Court of India (https://www.sci.gov.in/reports/)

The Supreme Court of India has released a landmark White Paper through its Centre for Research and Planning (CRP), outlining how artificial intelligence can enhance judicial efficiency while upholding constitutional values. To read the White Paper please go to the following link:

https://cdn.s3waas.gov.in/s3ec0490f1f4972d133619a60c30f3559e/uploads/2025/11/2025112244.pdf

OpenAI ‘Stops Giving Legal Advice’, But Has It Really?

Source: Artificial Lawyer

Social media is alight with news that OpenAI has changed its terms, with a commitment not to provide ‘legal advice’, but it still does a lot that many would consider well within a lawyer’s work. First, OpenAI’s LLMs have for a long time been telling users – if you really press them for legal advice – that you should seek the help of a lawyer, after first giving you tons and tons of legal ‘help’. So, that didn’t stop anyone from using GPT5 or any other ‘raw’ LLM for legal help before. 

To read more please go to the following link: https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2025/11/03/openai-stops-giving-legal-advice-but-has-it-really/

Chief Justice of India flags AI dangers, agrees to hear plea for judiciary guidelines

Source: Telangana Today

Chief Justice of India B R Gavai on Monday highlighted the dangers of artificial intelligence after a morphed video showed a fake courtroom incident. The Supreme Court agreed to hear a plea seeking guidelines to regulate AI use in the judiciary. To read more please go to the following link:

https://telanganatoday.com/cji-flags-ai-dangers-agrees-to-hear-plea-for-judiciary-guidelines

AI Threatens Employment, Supreme Court Raises Alarm Over Impact on Drivers and Legal Sector

Source: Law Trend

The Supreme Court of India on Tuesday expressed serious concerns over the potential impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on employment across various sectors, warning that the rapid advancement of AI could result in large-scale job losses.

To read more please go to the following link:

https://lawtrend.in/ai-threatens-employment-supreme-court-raises-alarm-over-impact-on-drivers-and-legal-sector/

Deepseek and its legal, business and financial implications for India

Source: India Technology News

US technology companies’ dominance was questioned on Monday, as Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley. The startup’s new AI model, a rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, is built entirely on open-source technology and lower-end chips. This  approach allowed DeepSeek to sidestep the need for high-end hardware restricted by US export controls and develop the model for just $5.6 million. As a result, DeepSeek is available at a cost that is just 2% of what users would spend on OpenAI’s O1 model.

To read more please go to the following link:

https://indiatechnologynews.in/deepseek-and-its-legal-business-and-financial-implications-for-india/

AI Tool's Data Training Not Fair Use, Thomson Reuters Argues

Source: Bloomberg Law

Thomson Reuters Enterprise Center GmbH argued Thursday that Ross Intelligence Inc.'s unlicensed use of its copyright-protected information to train an AI-based search model isn’t “fair use” even if the company didn’t directly use the original data. To read more please go to the following link:

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/ai-tools-data-training-not-fair-use-thomson-reuters-argues

Plea In Delhi HC Seeks Guidelines To Protect Artists Work From AI Training Usage

 Source: NDTV

A plea has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking directions to the Centre to formulate appropriate rules and regulations aimed at protecting talented artists from the unauthorized use of their original works by AI platforms. Plea also seeks directions against the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to amend the IT Act with the aim to develop a framework for enforcing and regulating Artificial Intelligence to mitigate potential system and societal risks. to read more please go to the following link:

https://www.ndtv.com/ai/plea-in-delhi-hc-seeks-guidelines-to-protect-artists-works-from-ai-training-usage-7170639

AI and the Future of Law in India: Challenges, and Opportunities

Source: Economic Times

India's legal system, while respected, grapples with a backlog of over five crore cases. Artificial Intelligence offers a potential solution by streamlining legal research, predicting case outcomes, and identifying risks. However, AI's limitations in understanding complex legal concepts and ethical concerns regarding data privacy and potential misuse necessitate human oversight.

To read more please go to the following link:

https://legal.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/opinions/ai-and-the-future-of-law-in-india-challenges-and-opportunities/115246551

AI: the new legal powerhouse — why lawyers should befriend the machine to stay ahead

Source: Reuters

AI is evolving at lightning speed, sparking both wonder and worry. As it transforms industries and our daily lives, we are caught between the thrill of innovation and the jitters of uncertainty. Will AI elevate the human experience or just leave us in the dust? How will it impact our careers, privacy and sense of security? Just as we witnessed with the rise of the internet — and later, social media — AI is poised to redefine how we work and live, bringing a mix of optimism and apprehension. While we grapple with AI's implications, our clients expect us to lead the charge in leveraging it for their benefit. To read more please go to the following link:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/ai-new-legal-powerhouse-why-lawyers-should-befriend-machine-stay-ahead-2024-10-24/

Lawyer Beats AI In Mock Trial Experiment

 Source: Artificial Lawyer

Given advances in generative AI, would a person in court assisted primarily by AI be able to outperform a regular human lawyer? Australian law firm, Lander & Rogers, decided to find out. The mock trial at SXSW Sydney was judged by Professor David Lindsay from the University of Technology Sydney and used AI tool NexLaw, supported by Ken Leung, a lawyer on Lander & Rogers’ Digital Economy team. To read more please go to the following link:

https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2024/10/17/lawyer-beats-ai-in-mock-trial-experiment/

The Future is Now: Artificial Intelligence and the Legal Profession - International Bar Association and Centre for AI & Digital Policy release groundbreaking report

Source: IBA Net

The International Bar Association (IBA) and the Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP) have launched a new report titled The Future is Now: Artificial Intelligence and the Legal Profession. This comprehensive study explores the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the legal profession and offers critical insights into the governance and ethical deployment of AI technologies in legal practice and how they help society. To read more please go to the following link: 

https://www.ibanet.org/IBA-and-CAIDP-release-report-The-Future-is-Now-Artificial-Intelligence-and-the-Legal-Profession

GenAI Trends in the Legal Profession in 2024

 Source: National Law Review

As we near the end of 2024, generative artificial intelligence (genAI) continues to shape the legal profession. These ten trends highlight how lawyers' adoption rates, genAI usage, and risk assessments have evolved over the past year. To read more from the article by Ms. Carolyn Elefant please go to the following link:

https://natlawreview.com/article/genai-trends-legal-profession-2024#google_vignette

Seven legal issues created by Generative AI

 Source: Annapurna Express

Generative AI (Gen AI) is a form of artificial intelligence that has the capability to create different kinds of content, such as text, images, audio, and synthetic data based on the data they have been trained on. Chat GPT, Google Bard, Perplexity AI, Jasper AI, Copy. AI, Midjourney, Copilot and Firefly are a few examples of Gen AI...

Gen AI has raises many legal challenges and issues. To read more please go to the following link:

https://theannapurnaexpress.com/story/50801/

Legal Research in the World of AI: A Boon or a Bane for Young Lawyers?

 Source: M&J Services (Article by Aurora V. Solis)

In the evolving landscape of the legal profession, artificial intelligence (AI) has undeniably emerged as a powerful tool. From streamlining documentation to analyzing vast quantities of case law, AI-based legal research tools have transformed the way lawyers approach legal challenges. However, despite the excitement surrounding this technological leap, it is crucial for young lawyers to understand both the advantages and the limitations of relying heavily on AI for legal research. To read more please go to the following link:

https://mandjservice.com/blogs/blog/legal-research-in-the-world-of-ai-a-boon-or-a-bane-for-young-lawyers

AI’s right to copy

Source: India Business Law Journal

As debate swirls around ownership of AI-generated content, what are the lessons for India on anchoring AI in copyright law? To read more about this please go to the following link:

https://law.asia/generative-ai-copyright-law/

How AI legal tech startups are redefining the role of lawyers

 Source: Your Story dot com

AI legaltech startups are giving leverage to lawyers to be more efficient at work, better decision-makers, and lay more emphasis on strategic advisory tasks that are valuable to the clients.

AI legaltech startups are turning on the heads of the process-centric, traditional legal industry that was established in the past. These companies are using artificial intelligence (AI) to take some legal processes into auto-mode and enhance others, fundamentally changing the nature of practice and lawyers. To read more please go to the following link:

Read more at: https://yourstory.com/2024/09/ai-legaltech-startups-redefining-role-lawyers

Digital amnesia: Is AI erasing our minds?

 Source: Frontline - The Hindu

As digital assistants remember more, humans risk forgetting what makes us human. Our growing addiction to digital memory aids chips away at core cognitive abilities, threatening to erode the foundation of human knowledge and cultural heritage. To read more please go to the following link:

https://frontline.thehindu.com/society/memory-human-ai-maths-digital-amnesia-technology-impact/article68561453.ece

CJI announces Supreme Court hackathon, says AI will be used to streamline functioning

 Source: Deccan Herald

Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Friday announced the second hackathon of the Supreme Court, which will focus on use of artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline the functioning of the top court. To read more please go to the following link:

https://www.deccanherald.com/india/cji-announces-supreme-court-hackathon-says-ai-will-be-used-to-streamline-functioning-3143944

India's AI law to focus on innovation, may skip penalties for violations

 India's AI law to focus on innovation, may skip penalties for violations

The Ministry of Electronics and IT is drafting a new AI law which will require social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and X to include watermarks and labels on content. An article by Vasudha Mukherjee. (Source - The Business Standard)

To read more, please go to the following link:

https://www.business-standard.com/india-news/india-s-ai-law-to-focus-on-innovation-may-skip-penalties-for-violations-124071700229_1.html

Supreme Court embraces AI to deliver 21st century process reforms

Source: Observer Research Foundation
https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/supreme-court-embraces-ai-to-deliver-21st-century-process-reforms-66417/

-- Gautam Chikermane (Vice President, ORF)

A transformation is underway in India’s court system. Led by the highest judiciary, this efficiency-inducing change in processes of courts such as filing, submitting extra material, payments of fees, verification practices or submissions has the potential to end the pain points of citizens while dealing with the court system. While the system needed cleansing for decades, the matrix of change that has come following the COVID19 crisis is not merely revolutionary but worthy of emulation by governments (Union and States) in their process reforms across policing, healthcare, and other public services on the one hand and registrations, compliances and filings for businesses on the other.

From 15 May 2020, the Supreme Court has shifted to a new system of filing, while guidelines for High Courts and District Courts have been drafted, circulated but not yet implemented. Once all courts are plugged into this filing system powered by artificial intelligence and other technologies, India’s courts will be able to focus more on arguing for and delivering justice than on filings and paperwork.

Using a common base of technology, a process matrix design, and leading from the front by the Supreme Court, this is an ongoing creative disruption in India’s justice system. This system uses electronic filing (e-filing) as a process tool and artificial intelligence as a reference support infrastructure, both underlined by efficiency, transparency and access to every user of court-delivery services. In other words, India’s courts are ushering in a new future-ready justice dispensation system for a 21st century India.

It also shows that the courts are in tune with and working towards developing a new filing architecture that’s in tune with a modern India. On the technological front, this is a future has already happened. COVID19 tipped the scales and pulled back the timeline. Led by Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud, Chairman of the Supreme Court’s eCommittee that has ushered in these process reforms and Chief Justice of India Sharad A. Bobde under whose leadership they have been sealed, India’s courts are now plugged into this future.

Two documents, “e-Filing – User Manual” for the Supreme Court and “A Step by Step Guide for Efiling for High Courts and District Courts of India” define the details of what can be termed as process reforms in the judicial system. The driving force behind these changes are “TEST values” – Trust, Empathy, Sustainability and Transparency. While the acronym is interesting, it will be tested by time. Of the four transparency in judicial processes is here, sustainability will need to be seen over the years, empathy is too fuzzy an idea for process reforms, while trust in the system will have to be earned.

The system enables electronic filing of legal papers for civil and criminal cases across courts. This will promote paperless filing and processing, while creating time and cost saving efficiencies. The system can be used by any Advocate-on-Record enrolled to practice in the Supreme Court of India or any or Party-in-Person litigant registered with the e-filing system. For High Courts and District Courts, the system is targeted at advocates, to whom the idea is being sold as a “Digital Era Advocate”. Some High Courts, such as the Delhi High Court has allowed Party-in-Person, while others are watching in the wings.

Four key features define this system. First, the system enables 24/7 filing. Members of the bar do not have to file their cases during court hours; they can do so from home at any time, on any day. Second, it enables online communication of defects and scrutiny of matters that are filed. The system has time slots for raising the defects and seeking rectification. Third, e-payment of court fees. And fourth, introducing the digital signature for all filing-related conversations.

All four required lawyers or their clerks to stand in lines, over several counters, often standing on the knife-edge of case and process timeslots, causing delays through serial hearings in the dispensation of justice. With the new system all these are gone. Finally, for those who are not in tune with technology, the Registry Service will hand-hold them by engaging data entry operators in the Supreme Court, a system that could be used by High Courts and District Courts as and when they follow.

The artificial intelligence infrastructure on which this process speeding rests will now play a big role in the organisation of courts, categorisation of matters, process automation. It will also enable extraction of information at the rate of 1 million words per minute and can be used for the purpose of deciding a case. There is visible enthusiasm around these changes at the top. “If we had this system when the Ayodhya matter was being heard, I don’t know how fast we could have dealt with it,” Bobde said while releasing the document. “Records of thousands and thousands of pages, information from that could be extracted in a minute.”

In January 2020, around 1 lakh cases comprising approximately 26.84 lakh pages were transmitted from district courts to High Courts in India. This waste will now end and from the clients’ side, the reduction of paperwork will cut cost. The process behind the change has been tested – during the lockdown period, there were 820 matters and 552 documents filed via e-filing in the Patna High Court alone. Further, if matters are introduced in courts through e-filings, and a case is decided by trial court, the appellate court can access the entire record of the trial court along with the appeal.

The lockdown can be seen as a practice session, a compulsory training to prepare for a new working environment. Along with hearings through video-conferencing, this process reform will go a long way in sharpening the justice system, tightening costs and reducing the financial burden of justice on citizens. But it is not that all cases can or will be heard on video. Some will have to be heard in congregation.

There will be the usual protests. Clerks, for instance, will need to upgrade their skills. Thus far, their job was akin to courier firms – carting cases, taking photocopies, paying fees, and suchlike. With the entire system now online and available to every Advocate-on-Record at a tap, these skills have lost their purpose. Clerks will now have to upgrade, adapt, add value to themselves and become executive assistants. The entire bulk photocopying infrastructure and filing of paper books in courts will need to find new sources of revenue. This huge number of staff undertaking these tasks will have to embed itself into the new system – being part government servants their jobs are secure even if their tasks may change. As far as petty rent-seeking and bribery goes, it will hopefully end.

If we hear cries against this proposal, we only need to lean on the towers of history. For every change, leave alone a reform, there have been doomsday pictures painted by incumbents. When banks were computerised in the 1980s, banking unions raised a big hue and cry saying computerisation will displace jobs. But finally they upgraded themselves and settled into related jobs. As with every new system, the e-filing infrastructure too will face glitches. But those seeking a U-turn at the first challenge are going to be disappointed. While problems, as and when they come up, will be ironed out, there is no going back on this step, according to Bobde.

It is clear that riding these process reforms, India can expect speedier justice. And if that happens, the clogging of cases in courts could end. This will particularly help those with fewer resources – poor citizens, small and medium enterprises, low-cost contractual breaches, property disputes. The courts may see fewer people, as lawyers and litigants may not have to be physically present there.

And while the future direction of the court systems is clear, the past need not stand on an archaic platform. The Supreme Court should initiate a simultaneous process under which the process of digitising, in machine-readable form, should be initiated for old cases. This may take time, it may need resources. But it will complete the circle of justice the Supreme Court intends to draw.

A big challenge may come from judges themselves. The transition to reading and engaging with e-documents from paper ones, for instance, may not be as easy as planned. Referring multiple pages across varying courts will need the judges to adapt and learn new skills too. But the decisive and irreversible action combined with the efficiency-inducing intention of the change being clear, the benefits are likely to override these costs and inconveniences.

The returns from this initiative should be visible in the short-term, while outcomes such as reduced pendency should follow in the medium- to long-term timespan. While the transition could take some time before it stabilises, the vision of, and path to, paperless, efficient, AI-driven, technology-supported courts has been ushered in and action plan drawn up. With full credit and kudos to the Supreme Court for this initiative, the nation watches closely how the new system shapes up, and in turn shapes the justice system to serve a 21st century India.